Movies: John Lennon

In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the familiar 16mm film with DV video, he offers a fly-on-the-wall look at intimate moments spent with one of the foremost a...

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in i...

"Fame" was used as the soundtrack of an animated music video of the same title, directed by Richard Jefferies and Mark Kirkland while students at California Institute of the Arts. The film, released in 1975, went on to win the Student Academy Award f...

Depicts the Elm Conflict a.k.a. the Battle of the Elms, a dispute and public protest on 11-12 May 1971 at Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, Sweden....

A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays....

Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a George Maciunas dumpling party on 80 Wooster Street, Soho, on June 29, 1971. George Maciunas, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono are pictured....

The camera follows a fly as it walks about the body of a nude woman. Shot in extreme closeup and accompanied by Ono's eponymous song, the film sets out to celebrate the human body....

Yoko Ono plays with our sense of anticipation by constructing a metaphor for the liberation of the female body and self....

The film is based on an interview of John Lennon by Jerry Levitan in 1969. Levitan, then 14 years old, tracked Lennon to his hotel room at Toronto's King Edward Hotel after hearing a rumour that Lennon had been sighted at the Toronto Airport. Jerry m...

VHS tape featuring 12 performances in 1963 & 1964 by The Beatles on iconic 60's pop show Ready Steady Go. All performances in black & white in front of a live studio audience....

A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays....

Animation by japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami for John Lennon's song "Oh Yoko!" -- the song was released in 1971, and the animation made in 1973. Keiichi Tanaami (田名網 敬一, Tanaami Keiichi, born in 1936 in Tokyo) was one of the leading pop artists of po...

John & Yoko’s historic One To One Concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City on 30 August 1972. They were John Lennon’s only full-length concerts after leaving The Beatles and the last two full-length concerts that John & Yoko performed together...

Alf Bicknell, who was the Beatles' driver and road manager, shows footage, photographs and outtakes taken while he was employed by the Beatles....

The American documentary makers - The Maysles Brothers, were given exclusive access to almost every minute of The Beatles first American visit. The first 3 days of film footage shot in New York was rushed over to Granada Television in London who qui...

The year: 1969. Headlines blare war and civil unrest while John Lennon and Yoko Ono are in love. The eccentic rock 'n' roll couple has just gotten married, and more than happy to be together, they want to change the world. Lying in a hotel bed surrou...

August 30, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono backed by The Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band, played a benefit concert to raise money for mentally handicapped children. It was their last concert together....

A countdown of the 20 greatest gigs of all-time as chosen by a panel of pundits, promoters and performers....

USCO light, Beatles sound. A visionary realization of the USCO Riverside Museum installation exhibition in New York, the show which introduced the word 'Be-In' to the English language. Acid visuals accompanied by a muddy recording of The Beatles play...

In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New York. In Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol, Auder captures revealing moments in Warhol's public and private life: the opening of the 1970 Whitney Museum r...